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doomsyrup t1_jdfuj2l wrote

Look, I'm not gonna lie - the first season was alright but my partner and I ended up watching the next two seasons as a pure, guilty pleasure hate watch. The dialogue was terrible, storylines were well intentioned but went nowhere, character motivations and relationships would change on a dime (they kept trying to convince us that Sophie was a good person...she was awful!!!), and song choices were so obvious that lyrics would basically act as secondary exposition.

Despite it all - this will always have a very special place in my heart because there was nothing more comforting to us during lockdown than getting takeaway and making an event out of watching this wonderful mess of a show.

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lightsongtheold t1_jdft5ew wrote

No Showtime series has been renewed since the January announcement that the premium cable network will be integrated into Paramount+ across both streaming and linear later this year and renamed as Paramount+ with Showtime.

Showtime is dead. Only stuff surviving will be Billions, Yellowjackets, and The Chi. The rest of the stuff is done. They will just mirror the Paramount+ shows on cable to fill out the time slots and buy in some cheap co-productions from the UK.

I expect them to be announcing they are dropping the second season of Super-Pumped any day now. They have already pulled the first season from the service.

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ShiftAlpha t1_jdfslxd wrote

I am absolutely prepping a campaign in his world right now. The only books I have ever owned are his Shattered world series and Street Magic. I am pained to see they weren't mentioned in this article. In early 2000 I sent him an email asking permission to make a video game in his world. He responded declining due to dealing with some serious marital and life issues. I was expecting him to just blow me off due to my age, but he was totally cool about it and I feel like had I followed up a few years later he would have been up for it . This guys incredible imagery in his writing formed the basis of my imagination. I hope he was able to sort out his life, he had such a great impact on many peoples childhoods.

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ArsBrevis OP t1_jdfnv35 wrote

Yes - not able to edit the title unfortunately.

I'm not sure that the reboot is going to be all that more successful. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It seems like they should let different creatives take a crack at this 'franchise'.

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